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Today's Food News: How to Buy Prawns, The Longest Shake Shack Line of All Time, and More!

by Danica Lo

on 06/10/14 at 01:27 PM

How to buy prawns without supporting slavery: There's a huge problem with slavery in the Thai seafood industry, but making wise choices as a consumer can help you to avoid supporting corrupt industries. Here are five tips on how and where to shop. [Guardian]

Do your kids bring their smartphones to the table? Here's a cool new app that locks phones and tablet devices during dinnertime, so your kids can concentrate on feeding their faces instead. [DinnerTimeApp]

With this kind of focus from participants, it might seem reasonable to place competitive eating among the ranks of other legitimate sports; a strong audience base, highly organized league structure, and meticulous training regimen add an element of validity, and Major League Eating considers competitive eating a demanding athletic undertaking.

But what kind of well-founded sport calls attention to such brazen gluttony and the revolting digestive processes of the human body? Instead of zeroing in on an athlete’s physiological vigor and agility, competitive eating plays an antithetical role—a sort of sport in reverse.